Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Tale of Igor''s Campaign is an anonymous epic poem written in the Old East Slavic language and tentatively dated to the end of 12th century. The Ormulum or Orrmulum is a 12th-century work of Biblical exegesis, written in early Middle English verse by a monk named Orm (or Ormin). Because of the unique phonetic orthography adopted by the author, the work preserves many details of English pronunciation at a time when the language was in flux after the Norman Conquest; consequently, despite its lack of literary merit, it is invaluable to philologists in tracing the development of English. The Chanson d''Antioche is a chanson de geste in 9000 lines of alexandrines in stanzas called laisses, now known in a version composed about 1180 for a courtly French audience and embedded in a quasi-historical cycle of epic poems inspired by the events of 1097 1099, the climax of the First Crusade.